The Seven Aphorisms of Summum

Enjoyed listening to excerpts from Supreme Court Justice's arguments on Summum monument dispute on the radio today. Summum wants to place its guiding principles in a Pleasant Grove, Utah, park where the Ten Commandments are also displayed. The Court seems to be having a heartache in allowing this. Summum's aphorisms (see below) sound pretty similar to writings in Hinduism. The founder of this religion/philosophy, Corky Ra, says that he encountered extra-terrestrials, and he finds merit in mummification - pretty interesting!

1. Summum is mind, thought; the universe is a mental creation.

2. As above, so below; as below, so above.

3. Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

4. Everything is dual; everything has an opposing point; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes bond; all truths are but partial truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

5. Everything flows out and in; everything has its season; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing expresses itself in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.

6. Every cause has its effect; every effect has its cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is just a name for Law not recognized; there are many fields of causation, but nothing escapes the Law of Destiny.

7. Gender is in everything; everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all levels.